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Summary
Learn about Restart a Heart Day and find out how you can learn CPR, locate defibrillators, and potentially save a life.

Restart a Heart Day is a crucial observance that encourages everyone to be prepared for the ultimate medical emergency: cardiac arrest.

What is Restart a Heart Day?

Restart a Heart Day was developed in 2013 by the European Resuscitation Council to teach members of the public how to help restart the heart of someone who has suffered a cardiac arrest.

In the UK, Restart a Heart (RSAH) is an annual initiative led by Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) which aims to increase the number of people surviving out-of-hospital cardiac arrests by helping more people learn CPR and become ResusReady.

Every October, an alliance of partners all over the world (including UK Ambulance Services, universities, and other charitable and public sector community-based organisations and first aid training organisations) come together to increase public awareness of cardiac arrests and the number of people trained in lifesaving CPR and defibrillation.

By learning essential steps like CPR and how to use a defibrillator, you can make a life-saving difference.

• Did you know? Most cardiac arrest events happen with family, right at home.

• Did you know? In the UK, fewer than one in 10 people survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

How to Support Restart a Heart Day

Here are a couple of things you can do to support Restart a Heart Day and help improve those survival rates:

1. The most important thing you can do is learn CPR and how to save a life. This link will take you to the British Heart Foundation's 'Revivr' training: https://revivr.bhf.org.uk/. It only takes about 15 minutes to complete and could be the training that helps raise that stubbornly low UK survival rate.

2. Locate your nearest defibrillator to your home, school, or workplace and make sure you know where to access one in an emergency. Knowing its location beforehand can save precious time when every second counts.

Early intervention with CPR and defibrillation can truly make all the difference.

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